# ScholarlyCommons at Penn — OAI-PMH

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pennsylvania/scholarlycommons-oai-pmh/  
**Provider:** University of Pennsylvania — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-pennsylvania/  
**Base URL:** https://repository.upenn.edu/server/oai  
**Documentation:** https://repository.upenn.edu/

ScholarlyCommons at Penn — OAI-PMH is one of 10 APIs that [University of Pennsylvania](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-pennsylvania/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Research Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Open Access, and Library. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

Conformant OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for ScholarlyCommons at Penn, the university's institutional research repository, on Penn's own host under Handle prefix 20.500.14332. verb=Identify, ListSets, ListMetadataFormats and ListRecords all returned HTTP 200 with well-formed OAI-PMH XML and real Penn records; twelve metadata formats are advertised. The software is DSpace 7.6 (open source, with Atmire modules), so the protocol is not Penn's engineering — but the endpoint, the host and the records are Penn's, which is what x-operator institution means here. Contract derived from live probes; Penn publishes no OpenAPI.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-pennsylvania/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-pennsylvania-scholarlycommons-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://repository.upenn.edu/
- **x-conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-pennsylvania/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-pennsylvania-conformance.yml
- **x-errors** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-pennsylvania/refs/heads/main/errors/university-of-pennsylvania-errors.yml
- **x-lifecycle** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-pennsylvania/refs/heads/main/lifecycle/university-of-pennsylvania-lifecycle.yml

## Other University of Pennsylvania APIs (9)

- [Penn Courses API (Penn Course Alert / Plan / Review / Degree Plan)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pennsylvania/penn-courses/)
- [Penn Clubs API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pennsylvania/penn-clubs/)
- [Penn SDK (Python)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pennsylvania/penn-sdk-python/)
- [Penn SDK (JavaScript / Node)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pennsylvania/penn-sdk-js/)
- [PennKey Identity Provider — SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth Metadata](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pennsylvania/pennkey-identity-provider/)
- [ScholarlyCommons at Penn — DSpace REST API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pennsylvania/scholarlycommons-rest/)
- [Penn Libraries Franklin Catalog — JSON API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pennsylvania/franklin-catalog/)
- [Colenda Digital Repository — Search JSON](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pennsylvania/colenda/)
- [OPenn — Open Manuscript Data](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pennsylvania/openn/)

## Tags

Research Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Open Access, Library

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